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Enhanced electroluminescence of ZnO nanocrystalline annealing from mesoporous precursors

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SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 140, Issue 1, Pages 18-22

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2006.07.030

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ZnO; template; mesoporous; EL

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An improved sol-gel method was used to prepare ZnO nanoparticles. EL results showed that slowing the addition of LiOH solution and heating in vacuum to obtain gel precipitation made the final ZnO samples' emission peak blue shift to 520 nm. Simultaneously, the peak value of the sample processed with no templates was enhanced 4.68 times and that of the sample processed with ODA was enhanced 0.71 times. Two copolymers Pluronic P123 (P123) and Pluronic F-127 (F-127) were adopted respectively as template reagents. The obtained mesoporous ZnO precursors exhibited a surface area of 69.21 m(2)/g and 103.57 m(2)/g and an average pore size of 6.61 nm and 5.70 nm, respectively. After calcining in a muffle furnace in air, the obtained ZnO nanocrystalline samples from these precursors revealed stronger green emission than the samples dealt with ODA. Compared to the magnification multiple of 0.89 times of the sample processed with ODA, the peak intensity of the sample processed with P123 was 2.03 times higher than that of the sample processed with no template reagents, and the intensity of the sample processed with F-127 was 3.3 times higher. This may be due to the larger surface area of samples from the longer molecule chains of the two template reagents. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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